I bet if any company could become as big as Muscle-Tech has, they would do the same exact thing. I'm not hating on the other companies, because I believe MT is very over-priced (you could also say the same of many of the products sponsored companies on this website sell), but you can't deny that MT puts out decent products and more people from here would use them IF they weren't priced so high.
It's called MARKETING AND PROFITS. So they take advantage of high school kids, which company doesn't? They spend tons of money every year on useless ****. It's their fault for not doing the research and listening to the employee at GNC whose pimping MT because he gets commission from selling it.